Finances of Crown and attempts to reform Flashcards
Prerogative Income
Fear & Prevention of Crown’s financial independence
Why was Crown’s finance issues worsening?
2 Main consequences of Crown’s financial weakness
Great Contract
Financial Weakness of Crown 1603 - 1624 - Key Causes
J’s extravagance - examples
Cockayne Project
Sale of Honours and Peerages
Monopoly
Thirty Years War
J1 - 3rd Parliament
J2 - 4th Parliament
Subsidy Act
Statute of Monopolies
What was the financial position at the time of J’s death
Key attempts at reform
Issues of Finance at start of C1’s reign
Cost of C1’s anti-Spanish FP?
Reforms & Strengthening royal finance under J1
Book of Bounty
Book of Rates
Treaty of London
The issue of impositions
Robert Cecil
Cecil’s Great Contract
Prorogue
J1’s relations with Parliament over finance
Sale of Knighthoods and Peerages
Actions of Lionel Cranfield
Issue of finance in 1625
Forced Loan
5 Knight’s Case
C’s methods of raising money during PR
Forest Fines